*Blue Cheeze* Interviews

PUPSTARS!
They may be easy on the eye and even easier on the ears, but don't let Blue near your pets!
New boyband Blue had better watch out. They could soon be under investigation by the RSPCA as Smash Hits reveals the shocking truth about their animal antics.
"We don't know why we're allowed pets when we're young," says Antony. "Kids are always horrible. My brother used to throw the cat to see whether it'd land on its feet!"
Lee looks sad. "My cat committed suicide!" The others crack up before realising he's serious. "It's true! One of her kittens died, and the next thing we know she's sitting outside waiting for cars. A few days later she got run over." The boys try not to laugh, but it's not working - even Lee joins in. "Don't! She was really depressed and committed suicide!"
Is any animal safe from the Blue boys?
"I poured aftershave into my goldfish tank once," laughs Simon. "I just wanted to make them smell nice - I was only little."
Er, so you're not exactly animal lovers then? "We were only young," protests Duncan. "Mind you, I feel really guilty about something I did. My grandparents had a dog, and one day I was crawling around on the floor with it and it playfully nipped me. I made such a fuss that they had it put down. I feel awful - they loved that poor dog!"
"We are definitely gonna get done by the RSPCA!" laughs Lee. "No more animal stories. We're nice to animals now."
"Yeah! My mum's dogs are married, and they've even had babies! We're nice really!" adds Duncan.
Oh, OK then. Smash Hits forgives you. All Rise pop's hottest new foursome!

BLUE'S BROTHER
EXCLUSIVE: Simon Blue reunited with his long-lost brother
Simon Blue has had an emotional meeting with his long-lost brother, who he tracked down in New York after 20 years apart.
Blue were in America to record their new video when Simon plucked up the courage to contact his younger brother, Strayon, who he knew lived in Brooklyn - a few miles away from where the band were staying.
Simon explained they had never met even though they are just two years apart in age and said he had been extremely nervous about meeting him.
"My heart was in palpitations but I didn't show it - we were both keeping it cool.
"It was great, it was such a feeling. It was like meeting a mate. I thought he was 17 before I met him but he is 20, two years younger than me.
"We look similar - same eyes and stuff - but he looks more like my older brother. I just phoned him up and said,'I'm in New York staying in Manhattan' and he was like,'what? Cool, I'll see you tomorrow.' It was strange, but you can tell we are brothers - we certainly had a lot to talk about."
And only days after meeting his brother for the first time, Simon told how he immediately contacted Strayon to check he was safe when the twin towers collapsed.
"I rang him up to tell him I was OK and see if he was safe, and luckily he was fine. We will definitely be keeping in contact from now on."

BOYS IN BLUE
Girls, there is a God. They're single!
They may be the newst band on the block, but Blue are already making waves in the pop world. Celebrity hang outs, phone pests and naughty emails - it's all in a days's work for these lads...
So, are you boys attached?
All: Nope!
Lee: I like to 'see' girls - going out with them doesn't interest me.
Simon: I've seen a gew girls I'm interested in but nothing's happened...yet! I'm a young man with hormones all over the place.
Antony: Me too, so send in your pics!
Duncan: I've been divorced five times...only joking, I'm single!

Are you on the market for a celebrity girlfriend then?
Lee: I'm trying...
Simon: I don't know if I'd want a celebrity girlfriend, I think I just want someone normal who doesn't know who I am. I'm kind of feeling Tina S Club though, but only if no one else is feeling her!
Antony: I don't know really, I'm too extrovert to settle down at the moment - with anyone.
Duncan: I'm not gonna go out with somebody just because they're famous. You should be with someone you can fall in love with whether they work in a shop, they're a singer (winking) or a journalist...

Cheeky! Are you regulats at trendy clubs now?
Simon: We haven't had much time to do anything, it's been so mad.
Lee: I did all that before. I like Sugar Reef and all those kinda places - you get fit birds in there.
Antony: It's expensive but when you go into town you have to pop in, don't you?
Duncan: I'm not really into all that, I'd rather just go to the local with my mates. I'm not a big drinker 'cos when I'm drunk I get really naughty and end up taking my clothes off!

Are you getting on each other's nerves yet?
Lee: No way! They're my boys - we've all been friends for ages now. Antony just cracks me up, Duncan and I talk about rubbish all the time and Si chills me out.
Simon: Antony makes us laugh and so does Lee. He's scatty and hyperactive all the time.
Duncan: Lee's funny, except when we're tired. Then we're like, 'Shut up!'
Antony: We know everything about each other now, all our faults and stuff - it's cool. I nick all of Simon's trainers, he owns about 50 pairs!

How are you coping with the trappings of fame?
Lee: To be honest everything goes over my head a bit, I still feel the same, not like a pop star at all!
Simon: How's a popstar supposed to feel? I don't like it when people treat me differently, especially old friends from back home.
Duncan: We haven't really had time to realise what's happening, it's been mad.
Antony: Yeah! We went to this party the other day and Lisa Snowdon came up to us and said she like the video. I was well chuffed!

Have you got any obsessive fans?
Lee: Not really. I gave my number out by accident and this girl phones me all the time. She wants me to be her boyfriend!
Simon: I don't think I'm that popular. People say I look moody, but I'm not. I'm not silly enough to give out my number though!
Antony: It's mad, especially when we're at places like SM:tv. I love it - I've been practising signing my autograph for years!
Duncan: Someone got hold of me email address the other day. Now when I get home there's about 50 messages - it's really flattering. Some of them say rude things - but they're for my eyes only...

WET 'N' WILD
Jacuzzis, wet T-shirts and skinny dipping? So that's why they're called Blue...
What's your favourite way to get wet?
Lee: With a girl in a sauna - nice and sweaty!
Simon: I like a power shower, I hate sitting in my own dirt.
Duncan: I like hot, steamy baths so I can just like there and soak.
Antony: A bubbly Jacuzzi is ideal

Have you ever gone for a wee in the swimming pool?
Simon: Yeah, all the time
Antony: My mate got caught doing that - he had white trunks on.
Duncan: I have in the sea! I did something else I shouldn't have in a Jacuzzi once. It was the bubbles, they got me excited!

Who would you like to get caught in a rainstorm with?
Simon: Like a wet T-shirt thing? Angelina Jolie!
Duncan: Someone really fir who's got great boobs - Britney or Mel B. She's got a great set, hasn't she?
Lee: Rachel S Club!

What was your wettest kiss ever?
Lee: I made a girl puke once. It was my first kiss so it must have been slimy. Another time, this girl kissed my face and bit a scab off my head and ate it. I thought it was funny!
Antony: I was in a club and this girl came over and was like (slobbers all over his hand). She split the back of my tongue, and I was bleeding and everything.
Simon: I don't think I've had a slimy kiss, but I hate it when girls bite you and think it's sexy. How is it nice when someone is hurting you?
Lee: It's nice when they bite your bottom lip though - just gently.
Duncan: I hate it when people are bad kissers. If they kiss badly, I won't kiss them again. I kissed this girl once that was like a washing machine and it was just gross.

What's your best wet memory?
Simon: Losing my virginity! No, playing a cup final in the rain. I never got dirty when I was playing football so they dropped me in a muddy puddle. At the time I wasn't happy but now I think it's funny.
Duncan: A couple of summers ago my mates and I went skinny dipping. There were loads of us running around in the sea butt naked!
Antony: I had a water fight in the rain once. It sounds weird but it was so funny. It was one of the last days of term at school.
Lee: My best wet experience was when I jumped off the cliff into the sea. It was just like in a cartoon - you jump out and it feels like you're hanging in mid air, then you start falling really fast. It was such a buzz.

Describe the perfect wet date...
Simon: I'd take a girl out on a jet-ski ride so they have to hold on tight! Or they can sit in front and you can hold on to them - if you know what I mean!
Antony: Or a banana boat. They bounce up and down a lot!
Duncan: That's not very romantic! How about a boat trip with lots of champagne, kissing, then maybe swimming with the dolphins, mmm...
Lee: Yeah, and watching the sunset - that would be lovely.
Simon: You should take a girl out on a speedboat, that's more like it.
Antony: Yeah, take her so far out to sea that she can't get back unless you take her. She'd have to do whatever you wanted!
Lee: No the ultimate would be to go in one of those cages in shark-infested waters - what a buzz. (The others look at him like he's mad while he bangs on about feeding sharks.)

Your mum catches you in the shower with a girl, what would you do?
Simon: I'd say, "Excuse me, mum, I'm busy!" She'd probably just laugh.
Antony: I'd probably say something like that too.
Lee: I'd tell her I was re-enacting the scene from Psycho or just ask her to pass me the soap. Actually thinking about it, I'd probably hide in shame.
Duncan: I'd pretend I was showing her how to use the shower attachement, I've used that excuse before actually. I'd better not say any more 'cos my Mum might kill me.

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
Blue - four boys on a pop rampage through the nightlife of celebsville...
Step out of the bright sunlight of old London town into the darkened, velvet-clad underworld of the Cafe De Paris. Here we observe the pop tribe commonly known as Blue in their natural habitat - the nightclub.
It is here that those handsome beasts of pop - Antony, Lee, Simon and Duncan - combine their passions of song, dance, and watering with bizarre mating rituals...Oh, all right, it's time for karaoke, booty shaking, liquid refreshments and pulling on a lads' night out...
Karaoke capers
It doesn't take much to persuade Blue to flex their karaoke muscles. "I normally do two songs," Antony proclaims, proudly. "Mustang Sally or George Michael's Father Figure." Duncan confesses to a bit of Elvis and Elton John while Lee does I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing, complete with rock ballad fist action.
But Simon claims he's never set foot on the spangly karaoke stage. "Hang on a minute," says Duncan. "What about that time in Tenerife? You were Sisqo."
Of course, all this karaoke madness is what prepared the boys for their pop careers. They confess to spending hours 'practising' their moves in front of the mirror before they joined Blue. "It helps," says Lee. "If you're performing in front of thousands of people, you can just pretend you're in your bedroom."
"You feel a right idiot when you get caught!" warns Antony. "My mum and dad walked in when I was choreographing my own dance routine and I was like, 'Er...'"
Dancefloor action
All the boys agree Simon is the best dancer in the band. "It's nothing special," he shrugs, modestly. "Our choreographer, Paul Roberts, works out our routine and then we'll add our own bits in." Not that Simon's silky skills protect him from dancefloor mishaps. "Yesterday I tripped over a wire when we were on stage," he says. "I styled it. We've all messed up routines at some time, but we just laugh."
Antony discovered the joy and shame dancing can bring at a very early age. "Once when we were at a school disco, everyone cleared the floor and me and my mate did this dance routine," he laughs. "Then we got offered out by this geezer, going, 'Come on, we'll give you a dance off.'"
Lean, mean, pulling machines
"If a girl's a good dancer, it definitely makes her more fanciable," says Simon. "Except if they're drinking a pint."
Duncan, clearly a man of the new millenium, disagrees. "I actually like a bird who drinks a pint," he points out. "It's quite a turn on. If I see a girl standing there, with her hair up, sipping a pint i think 'Go on, girl!'"
Simon obviously feels threatened by this kind of behaviour. "I'd hate that, she'd drink me under the table. I'm supposed to be the man," he says, shaking his head.
And do they always play fair? It's a common dilemma: you're out with a group of mates and you all fancy the same girl. Blue have an agreement on what they'd do in this situation - "shark each other".
"If we all liked the same girl, we'd all try it on and may the best man win," says Simon. There's a pre-planned method to their pulling. "I'll start first and I"ll end up at the back of the queue," explains Antony. "One night we went to a club and everyone else was giving it the attitude on the dancefloor. I started doing all these dance moves and this girl was looking at me. I went, 'Hey, you and me, we're like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Torville and Dean. Numer?' And she gave me her number!"
"Antony's a cheeky chappie," agrees Duncan. "He'll go up to a girl and clap her, telling her how great she looks. Meanwhile, Lee will be quite blatant about it, like, 'You're gorgeous, you! Can I take you out for a drink?'"
"Nah, but I do act out my shy approach sometimes," frowns Lee. "It works, too. Then I'll crack a few jokes. Simon gives it the cool, laid-back approach and just stand there looking at the girls."
"I'm pretty smooth, but blatant," says a smug-looking Duncan. "Women love confidence in a bloke."
Celebrity parties
Blue aren't interested by the champagne-quaffing pop star lifetsyle though. "All that VIP stuff is so boring!" says Lee. "Everyone's just standing around being stush. I just want to go out on the dancefloor and get all sweaty."
"People think that being cool is getting your best gear on and standing in a nightclub, being too afraid to move in case you crease your shirt," says Simon. "Whenever we go out we wear our jeans and trainers and just have a good time."
Blue realise that being a pop star makes you more attractive to women, but they're still down-to-earth. "People's perceptions of you change when they realise who you are," says Simon. "I was talking to a woman behind the counter at a cafe the other day. She realised who I was and she started going, 'Aargh!'"
"We don't want people to forget that we're just normal blokes," says Lee. "If we're out and you want tome up for a chat, have a chat. As long as you're not mad."
"Girls are normally really friendly and guys are like, 'Respect to your music, man,'" says Simon. "And then they hang around because all the girls are there."
Wild behaviour
Beware when you see the Blue boys travelling in a pack, for there's sure to be trouble ahead. "Every night we all go out together turns into a wild party," says Lee, conjuring up images of bikini-clad laydeez and much trashing of hotel rooms. The truth is much less wild.
"The first night we did Top Of The Pops was the best," says Duncan. "We'd found out that All Rise had fone into the charts and our record company bought us a few bottles of champagne. It all got a bit mad and we were singing very, very loudly. Too much lemonade and all those bubbles went to our heads."
At least these boys claim to know when it's time to go home. "When I've got a woman," says Simon. Antony's suggestion is less lecherous but more hardcore. "When I stumble out of a club and it's light," he says.
Lee, on the other hand, thinks he knows when to stop. "I know my limit, when I can't even lift the glass to my lips..." he says. Easy on the lemonade in the future, boys...

LIFE, LOVE AND HOW TO BEAT THE BLUES
It�s not just girls who have relationship problems, you know. And who better to offer romantic advice to the boys than Blue, the Casanovas of pop?
My best mate�s girlfriend and I fancy each other � what should we do?
Simon: You�re young, so tell your mate to step aside�
Antony: �and let others finish the ride.
Duncan: Antony once had this ex-girlfriend who told me she liked me one night in a club, and I snogged her. She kept telling Antony she liked him, and telling me she liked me and not Antony. I told Ant and now he hates her.
Antony: That really wound me up. A message to all the boy readers out there � girls are evil.
Lee: I think you should all get together and talk about it. I had a girlfriend when I was younger and I wanted to go out with her best mate instead. So I told her in front of her mate and it worked!

I want to dump my girlfriend of two years. Any tips on how to do it gently?
Antony: When I was at school I dumped a girl over the balcony at playtime in front of everyone. She ran off crying and all my mates thought I was wicked.
Duncan: I used to think you were really nice, Antony! Just tell her the truth � say it�s going nowhere, you enjoyed your time with her but it�s time to move on.
Lee: Two years is a long time, so do it nicely. Don�t tell her on the phone or by text message � you should get in the habit of doing things like this face to face, it shows respect.

This may sound really stupid but I don�t know how to act around girls�
Simon: Just be yourself, be confident and friendly � we all go to the toilet and all that. Once you�ve broken the ice it�s a lot easier.
Lee: Don�t put a mask on �cos you always mess up in the end and they�ll only get to know the fake you. Be truthful and open. If you think someone�s got nice eyes then tell her, don�t be false.

I�ve started having rude dreams about a good friend. Should I tell her how I feel?
Antony: Yes, or it�s just going to get worse.
Duncan: That�s happened to me before. It�ll either ruin your friendship forever or it�ll eat you up inside. Get it out in the open and talk about it.
Lee: But don�t make it sound cheesy. The best way to test the water is to pay her a compliment and gauge her reaction.

Help! My girlfriend wants to take things further than I do�
Lee: It�s up to you, if you aren�t ready then don�t do it. If she doesn�t respect that then she ain�t the right person for you.
Simon: You should play hard to get. Treat �em mean, keep �em keen.
Antony: And when she asks questions just say that you�re out, don�t tell her where you are. Tell her you�re busy and you�ll call her later.
Simon: And tell her you�re with �someone� but never say who.

I like this girl but I�m horrible to her. Why can�t I be nice?
Antony: I used to do that a lot. If I liked a girl at school, I�d poke her with a stick.
Lee: Stop being horrible to her, it won�t get you anywhere. Tell her that you like her and the reason you�ve been horrible to her is that you have feelings for her.
Simon: I used to throw stones at the girls I liked. One girl I fancied sent her friend to ask me out and I shouted across the playground, �I�d never go out with you!� Even though she was the best girl in school and everyone wanted to go out with her. It�s one of those things � you don�t like the fact that they mad you like them.